AUTOBAHN WITH MEMORIAL(Berlin, 1999)

The apparent incongruity of a memorial inscribed in the lines of a speedway points to the inherent paradox of static names which the viewer can only decipher when standing still. Memorials, and the inscriptions they bear, are intrinsically linked to the notion of time, past and present, of the time we take to read about the end of someone else’s time. When confronted with a moving subject in the time and space, they bridge the points of departure and arrival of the beholder’s journey and the stranger’s past existence. As they slow down, drivers experience themselves as travelers through their own lives.